Articles related to "Secretary Robert Mcnamara"

United States President John F. Kennedy and his advisors determine that the Cuban missiles must be removed either by air strikes or by imposing a blockade around Cuba.

Alleged attacks on two American destroyers by North Vietnamese patrol boats gave the Johnson Administration an excuse to request passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution.

While real progress was made on nuclear arms reduction with the United States, the Soviet Union itself was beginning to break up and finally collapsed in December 1991.